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Horncastle Virtual VE Day Exhibition

Horncastle Virtual VE Day Exhibition

1945-2020 | Remembering VE Day & the Town in Wartime

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  • Exhibition
    • Horncastle Rejoices on VE Day
    • Soldiers in Town
    • Horncastle soldiers around the world
      • Joining Up
      • Norway – B Company into Battle
    • Air Raids and the Aspidistra
    • Home Front Horncastle
      • Defence of the Town
      • Rationing and Making Do
      • Evacuees in Town
      • War Effort & Entertainments
    • The War in the Countryside
    • Roll of Honour
    • Postwar recovery?
      • Danger Remained in the Countryside
      • Prisoners of War on the Doorstep
      • Rationing & Restraint
      • Putting Our Houses in Order
      • Sanitation to Rival Concentration Camp
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Tag: Air Raid

Air Raids and the Aspidistra

In September 1940 Horncastle was the first town in the county to be bombed by the Nazis.

Air Raid, Almshouses, ARP, BBC Peoples War, Boston, Boston Road, Fire Brigade, Foundry Street, Grisby, High Street, Holmeleigh, Horncastle Childrens Homes, Jack Danby, Lincoln Co-operative Society, Lincolnshire Co-Op, Lincolnshire Echo, Louth, Midville, North Street, Police, Queen Street, Railway, Red House, Roy Marshall, Shirley Bell, Shop, Skegness, Warehouse, Whelpton Almshouses

Norway – B Company into Battle

After training, the icy wastes of Norway was many Horncastle soldiers first action overseas in the war.

"B" Company, 4th Battalion, Air Raid, Captain Tweed, Fjord, Glasgow, Grong, Namsos, Norway, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, Ruins, Scapa Flow, Snow, Tony Bell, Trondheim

Defence of the Town

Horncastle Home Guard No. 5 Platoon photographed in June 1941 outside the old Grammar School (now the School House Coffee … More

Air Raid, Ambulance, Belchford, Blackout, British Red Cross, Horncastle and Woodhall Spa News, ID Cards, Langton, Langton by Horncastle, War Agricultural Executive Committee, War Memorial Hospital, Winston Churchill

Danger Remained in the Countryside

Other more practical aspects of clearing up after the conflict were being reported in 1946. In January there was an … More

Air Raid, bombs, Butterfly bomb, Caistor High Street, rural, Scrivelsby, Tumby
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